It’s a tantalizing concept, but one fraught with all sorts of unknowns and intangibles. For the Spotify podcast You Heard Me Write, local artist Kacie Willis matched Atlanta artists of different backgrounds and disciplines to work on a multimedia project. The catch — they wouldn’t know who their counterparts were until they actually met. The…
Lifetime’s new Mahalia has Georgia artists in every corner. Part-time Atlantan Kenny Leon produces, directs and has a small, early role as a music professor. Augusta-born Danielle Brooks (Orange Is the New Black) is its leading lady and Atlanta-based actor Rob Demery plays the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Robin Roberts (Good Morning America), the…
Bo Bartlett always knew what his first feature film would be about — he just didn’t know it would take decades to make it. After putting aside directing for a while to focus on his artwork, Bartlett — known internationally as an American realist painter — has returned to film with the drama THINGS DON’T…
No one knows exactly when yet. Perhaps it will be this fall, or maybe in early 2022. As more people receive COVID-19 vaccinations and the CDC relaxes its guidelines on gatherings, the time will come when Atlanta theater companies can open to audiences that feel secure enough to attend in person. After a year in…
Jon Carr left his job as artistic director at Dad’s Garage’s Theatre Company in December to become executive producer of The Second City in Chicago, but not before holding multiple positions with Dad’s, including playwright. His semi-autobiographical Black Nerd — which ran for four packed weekends in 2018 — is available again, on the company’s…
Whether it was sitting enthralled at a tech rehearsal or staged reading, attending an opening night, delivering photos to an appreciative performer, or offering hugs and support, Alan and Susan Stiefel made embracing Atlanta theater makers their passion for decades. On September 30, 2020, Alan learned he had cancer. His doctor said that without a…
His first year of college should have been the best of his life, but for Atlanta-born Madison Hamburg, it was anything but. In 2010, Hamburg’s mother was murdered, prompting him to leave SCAD Savannah in just his second quarter and go home to Connecticut. The young filmmaker eventually decided to chronicle the case, and the…
Jamil Jude could have let it get to him. True Colors Theatre Company, where he’s been artistic director for two years, had to suspend production like every other Atlanta theater last March because of COVID-19. “It challenges you to be inventive,” he says. The company had been preparing to open the George Brant musical Marie…
Professional theater in Atlanta didn’t see any Suzi Bass Awards in 2020, and it’s unclear whether 2021 will be any different. COVID-19 is largely to blame, of course. Largely but not entirely. A lot has been going on behind the scenes. The Suzi Bass Awards were created in 2003 to honor excellence in Atlanta professional…
Atlanta moviegoers angling for the Sundance Film Festival experience can get it this week — in a sense — as the revered event goes online and on the road. With the specter of COVID-19 hovering, the Park City, Utah, fest will fulfill is 2021 mission with digital screenings open to the general public and a…
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